If this is your first visit, be sure to
check out the FAQ by clicking the
link above. You may have to register
before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages,
select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.
There are hawks that will catch an entire iguana and pound it into the ground until it either suffocates or dies, and then fly back to it's nest with it.
I once was steelheading on the upper Skagit and watched a seagull zero in on a hatchling size fish and swoop down and grab it out of the water. Not a big deal on it's own, but from way up in the sky was a bald eagle that waited for the seagull to come up with the fish, and it went into divebomber mode and drilled that seagull so hard it dropped the fish, that the eagle then grabbed before it hit the water.
The seagull fell from the sky & landed in the river, and I saw it was still alive, as it was flapping a wing as it rounded the bend and out of sight. The way it was flapping only 1 wing, I'm pretty sure that eagle snapped a few bones in the other wing, so it was pretty much 'game over' for that gull.
The eagle took the fish out to the sandbar upstream and ate the fish.
Quite a change of fortune in a few seconds for that gull, from catching a fish to fighting to even get out of the river.
It's not how you handle the good times, but the faith you keep in the bad that defines you.
Oddly enough the seagulls do the same thing to the other birds. I was out in the parking lot throwing bread to some sparrows as well as some other birds, when all of a sudden 3 seagulls landed and scared off the others.
Comment